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...Transcript, being thoroughly convinced of the divine goodness of capitalism, often carries the best account of developments in Washington, for it has no qualms about stating things baldly. Its account reads: "The most vigorous pressure from business convinced officials that to grant it (labor's demand) would wreck the present relationship built up in NRA. Industrialists who made the representations to Hugh S. Johnson came away satisfied." Amazing how "convincing" "vigorous pressure" can be, and so "satisfactory...
...President of Haiti that the United States withdraw its fiscal control over that country. While expressing a kindly word for the record of the Haitian government, nonetheless our own F. D. could not find it in his heart to grant this request. And why not? Because, as the Transcript neatly paraphrases it, "of the injustice Mr. Roosevelt feels such action would be to Haitian bondholders." It is understood this means Haitian bondholders living in the United States. President Roosevelt added that the United States would welcome any refunding agreement which Haiti may arrange that is satisfactory to the bondholders. What...
...Last week the Boston Transcript reported that President Angell will retire "probably on or about his 66th birthday in 1935," may be succeeded by the university's Provost, Historian Charles Seymour, 48, author of The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. In New Haven, this rumor was dismissed with the firm expectation that President Angell would continue active for at least four years...
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...Conant's shyness, the big note in the Transcript's stories of last year, has not disappeared over the summer. Probably it has increased a bit, as the following piece of news should prove. Needing a secretary in his new job, President Conant was given the name of Vernon Munroe, '31. Vernon was summering on the Cape, when he received a call from Cambridge. The ensuing conversation was on this order...